Tickets for Early Music Vancouver’s (EMV) 54th Season – Luminescence – go on sale in one week. Patrons can prepare to welcome a star-studded season including; The Tallis Scholars (UK), countertenor Reginald Mobley, the Pacific Baroque Orchestra with baritone Tyler Duncan, Dhrupad master Uday Bhawalkar (India), Profetti Della Quinta, Le Consort (France), Ensemble Caprice (Canada),…
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Early Music Vancouver announces 2021 Fall season
Early Music Vancouver (EMV) has announced its fall programming, between now and December. Expect a second announcement later in the season with details on what’s to come from January to June 2022. The season includes four in-person concerts which will also be available to watch online – via ticketed livestream or recorded for viewing by donation. The…
Music On Main presents The Kessler Academy 2021 – Live
Music on Main is preparing to welcomes audiences back to live in-person performances with the seventh consecutive year of The Kessler Academy. On August 14th join other audience members at Vancouver Playhouse for the chance to share in a live performance of brilliant music and musicians. The Kessler Academy is an intergenerational collaboration, named for…
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Announces 2020/21 Season
While the current season is temporarily interrupted due to COVID-19 precautions, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) looks to the future and its 2020/21 season. The recently announced season will be Otto Tausk’s third as Music Director. From Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice to Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, and MahlerFest, the…
VSO New Music Festival Starts the New Year
As the 2020s begin Vancouver Symphony Orchestra brings the VSO New Music Festival to stages from January 11-16. With a theme of (Re-)Creation, the festival is a chance to revisit and discover new, brilliant and extraordinary works of the 21st Century with the artists who originally created them. Opening the festival January 11th at The Chan…
Early Music Vancouver (EMV) launches its 50th Season
This Saturday, Early Music Vancouver (EMV) launches its 50th Anniversary Season with Le Concert Spirituel: Baroque Orchestral Suites. Inspired by the 18th-century French Le Concert Spiritual concert series, 16 members of Victoria Baroque present a lavish pairing of French Overture Suites and Italian Concerti Grossi. Canadian icon, baroque violinist, and Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra Musical Director Emerita Jeanne Lamon, who recently…
Vancouver Bach Festival Brings Back Bach
The Vancouver Bach Festival, presented by Early Music Vancouver (EMV) returns to Christ Church Cathedral and the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, July 30 – August 9, 2019. J.S. Bach (1685 – 1750) is regarded as one of the greatest composers in Western musical history. His legacy includes some of the most beautiful and well-crafted music ever written. Almost…